Publications by Jacques Fellay

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Associations of genetic and infectious risk factors with coronary heart disease

Prunelle Louise Cécile Letang-Mathieu, Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Flavia Aurelia Shoko Hodel, Zhi Ming Xu

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is one of the most pressing health problems of our time and a major cause of preventable death. CHD results from complex interactions between genetic and environmental factors. Using multiplex serological testing for persistent ...

eLIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD2023

Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Disease in Otherwise Healthy Infants: Failure of Specific Neonatal Immune Responses

Jacques Fellay, Alessandro Borghesi

Only a small proportion of newborn infants exposed to a pathogenic microorganism develop overt infection. Susceptibility to infection in preterm infants and infants with known comorbidities has a likely multifactorial origin and can be often attributed to ...

Frontiers Media Sa2017

Host genomics of SARS-CoV-2 infection

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball

SARS-CoV-2 infected a large fraction of humans in the past 2 years. The clinical presentation of acute infection varies greatly between individuals, ranging from asymptomatic or mild to life-threatening COVID-19 pneumonia with multi-organ complications. De ...

SPRINGERNATURE2022

GuavaH: a compendium of host genomic data in HIV biology and disease

Jacques Fellay, Paul Jack Mc Laren, Istvan Bartha

Background: There is an ever-increasing volume of data on host genes that are modulated during HIV infection, influence disease susceptibility or carry genetic variants that impact HIV infection. We created GuavaH (Genomic Utility for Association and Viral ...

BioMed Central2014

Phylogenetic estimation of the viral fitness landscape of HIV-1 set-point viral load

Jacques Fellay

Set-point viral load (SPVL), a common measure of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 virulence, is partially determined by viral genotype. Epidemiological evidence suggests that this viral property has been under stabilising selection, with a typical opti ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2022

Exploring the interactions between the human and viral genomes

Jacques Fellay

Over the last decade, genome-wide association studies led to major advances in identifying human genetic variants associated with infectious disease susceptibility. On the pathogen side, comparable methods are now applied to identify disease-modulating pat ...

SPRINGER2020

Identifying and Characterizing Trans Women in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study as an Epidemiologically Distinct Risk Group

Jacques Fellay

Background As trans women are disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic, and are still understudied, we aimed to identify and characterize the trans women in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS). Methods A combination of criteria from pre-existing cohor ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2022

Revolutionizing Medical Data Sharing Using Advanced Privacy-Enhancing Technologies: Technical, Legal, and Ethical Synthesis

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Jacques Fellay, Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza

Multisite medical data sharing is critical in modern clinical practice and medical research. The challenge is to conduct data sharing that preserves individual privacy and data utility. The shortcomings of traditional privacy-enhancing technologies mean th ...

JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC2021

Prevalence of actionable pharmacogenetic variants and high-risk drug prescriptions: A Swiss hospital-based cohort study

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Flavia Aurelia Shoko Hodel

Drug type and dosing recommendation have been designed and optimized based on average response in the general population. Yet, there is significant inter-individual variability in drug response, which results in treatment inefficacy or adverse drug reactio ...

WILEY2024

Adaptation of hepatitis C virus to interferon lambda polymorphism across multiple viral genotypes

Jacques Fellay, Nimisha Chaturvedi

Genetic polymorphism in the interferon lambda (IFN-lambda) region is associated with spontaneous clearance of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and response to interferon-based treatment. Here, we evaluate associations between IFN-l polymorphism and HCV va ...

2019

The combined impact of persistent infections and human genetic variation on C-reactive protein levels

Jacques Fellay, Flavia Aurelia Shoko Hodel, Olivier Noël Marie Naret

Multiple human pathogens establish chronic, sometimes life-long infections. Even if they are often latent, these infections can trigger some degree of local or systemic immune response, resulting in chronic low-grade inflammation. There remains an incomple ...

BMC2022

Data protection and ethics requirements for multisite research with health data: a comparative examination of legislative governance frameworks and the role of data protection technologies

Sotiria Kechagia, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Jacques Fellay, Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza, Jean Louis Raisaro

Personalised medicine can improve both public and individual health by providing targeted preventative and therapeutic healthcare. However, patient health data must be shared between institutions and across jurisdictions for the benefits of personalised me ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2020

Low Trauma Fractures in People with Hiv: Longitudinal Time Trends in the Swiss Hiv Cohort Study, 2009-2022

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball

Background People with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are at increased risk of low trauma fractures (LTFs). Published data on LTF incidence trends over time have not been uniform. This study sought to analyze LTF time trends in the Swiss HIV Cohort Stu ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2025

Systematic screening of viral and human genetic variation identifies antiretroviral resistance and immune escape link

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball

Background: Considering the remaining threat of drug-resistantmutations (DRMs) to antiretroviral treatment (ART) efficacy, we investigated how the selective pressure of human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes drives certain DRMs' e ...

2021

Enhanced TLR7-dependent production of type I interferon by pDCs underlies pandemic chilblains

Jacques Fellay

Outbreaks of chilblains were reported during the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the essential role of type I interferon (I-IFN) in protective immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and the association of chilblains with inherited type I interferonopathies, we hypothesized ...

ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS2025

Bacterial diversity dominates variable macrophage responses of tuberculosis patients in Tanzania

Jacques Fellay, Zhi Ming Xu

The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) comprises nine human-adapted lineages that differ in their geographical distribution. Local adaptation of specific MTBC genotypes to the respective human host population has been invoked in this context. We aim ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Predicting the Occurrence of Variants in RAG1 and RAG2

Jacques Fellay, Flavia Aurelia Shoko Hodel, Dylan Lawless

While widespread genome sequencing ushers in a new era of preventive medicine, the tools for predictive genomics are still lacking. Time and resource limitations mean that human diseases remain uncharacterized because of an inability to predict clinically ...

2019

Human genomics of the humoral immune response against polyomaviruses

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Christian Hammer, Flavia Aurelia Shoko Hodel, Zhi Ming Xu, Petar Scepanovic, Olivier Noël Marie Naret

Human polyomaviruses are widespread in humans and can cause severe disease in immunocompromised individuals. To identify human genetic determinants of the humoral immune response against polyomaviruses, we performed genome-wide association studies and meta ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2021

Assessing the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Switzerland

Andrea Rinaldo, Jacques Fellay, Francisco Javier Perez Saez, Joseph Chadi Benoit Lemaitre

Following the rapid dissemination of COVID-19 cases in Switzerland, large-scale non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were implemented by the cantons and the federal government between 28 February and 20 March 2020. Estimates of the impact of these inter ...

2020

HLA tapasin independence: broader peptide repertoire and HIV control

Jacques Fellay

Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I allotypes vary in their ability to present peptides in the absence of tapasin, an essential component of the peptide loading complex. We quantified tapasin dependence of all allotypes that are common in European and Af ...

National Academy of Sciences2020